Using The Meter Read Date Method
A metered service agreement's SA type does not contain a specific indication that the service agreement is used to charge for metered service. Rather, if the system finds metered service points linked to the service agreement, it knows to use a meter read date as the end date of the bill segment. The trick is finding the perfect read amongst many possible reads. Refer to Meter Read Snapshot for a description of how the system finds the perfect end read.
If the next read date is in the future. The system will not create a bill segment for a metered service agreement if the next expected read date is in the future. The system determines the next expected read date using the service cycle schedule linked to the service agreement's service points.
Multiple scheduled read during a bill period. A base-package Get Consumption algorithm let's you control what happens when a service agreement's service point(s) have multiple scheduled meter readings during a bill period. You have two choices: 1) create a single bill segment using the latest scheduled meter read for the bill period, or 2) create a separate bill segment for every scheduled meter read during the bill period. The choice is yours. Refer to the BSGC-SP algorithm type for a description of the base-package algorithm type.